The EU AI Act requires clear labeling of deepfakes and AI-generated content. Blockchain-based provenance systems are emerging as a candidate to make these transparency rules technically enforceable and tamper-resistant.
Digital executive protection firm BlackCloak is extending its deepfake and impersonation defenses beyond the executive to family members and trusted associates, closing a growing attack surface exploited by AI-driven social engineering campaigns.
A new study reveals that Hugging Face, one of the largest open AI model repositories, hosts numerous non-consensual deepfake models targeting real individuals, raising serious questions about platform moderation and synthetic media ethics.
BitMind Forensics is ranking among the leading deepfake detection systems using a decentralized AI approach, applying distributed model training to keep pace with fast-evolving synthetic media generators.
Chinese labs like DeepSeek and Alibaba are releasing powerful open-weight AI models for free, reshaping the global AI ecosystem and pressuring US companies. Here's the strategy behind the giveaway and why it matters for synthetic media.
New research explores physiological signals like heartbeat-driven skin color changes as a forensic modality to detect talking-face deepfakes, offering a harder-to-forge biological ground truth beyond pixel artifacts.
AI text detectors promise to spot machine-written content, but fundamental statistical and technical limitations make reliable detection nearly impossible. Here's why the synthetic-text arms race favors generators over detectors.
As Washington weighs how to respond to advances in Chinese AI, the industry is urging policymakers against sweeping restrictions on open-weight models — a debate with major consequences for open-source generative AI and synthetic media tools.
AI chip startup Etched has reached a $10.3B valuation from big-name investors, betting its transformer-specialized Sohu ASIC can outrun Nvidia GPUs on inference — with major implications for AI video and synthetic media generation costs.
BOXX Insurance has added affirmative AI and deepfake coverage to its Cyberboxx Business policy, signaling that synthetic media fraud is now a mainstream, insurable enterprise risk.
Substack is rolling out a transparency tool that surfaces which newsletters lean on AI to generate content, adding a new layer of disclosure to the synthetic-text era and raising fresh questions about detection reliability.
New research tackles the 'hidden puppet master' problem: predicting how manipulative LLM dialogues change human beliefs. The work offers a framework for detecting persuasion and covert influence in conversational AI systems.